"It’s been three months since Sebastian Perez and Sebastian Bangsgaard opened Smør, a very small and sunny Scandinavian sandwich shop on East 12th Street in the East Village. The furnishings are very Danish modern, comfortable and spare and hard-edged, and the menu concentrates on smørrebrod, those open-face assemblages the foundation of which is a slice of rich, crumbly rye. It almost doesn’t seem like bread. Naturally, some feature smoked and pickled fish, of which herring is queen. The chicken salad with bacon is a classic, heaped high enough ($8) with mayo-laced poultry, and stacked with enough bacon accented with shredded beets and a frond or two of purslane, that it’s more of a small lunch than the kind of canape passed around at parties. Like all the smørrebrod here, much attention is paid to artistic presentations. Figuring out how to eat them is half the fun. The menu also offers buckwheat noodles, yogurt and granola, pancakes, and — this being the East Village — both avocado toast and a kale bowl." - Robert Sietsema
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